Friday, February 27, 2009

Gavin J. Grant, publisher of Small Beer Press in Easthampton, MA, reviews for the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury’s We’ll Always Have Paris (2009), a new collection of never-before-published stories that includes a tale set on Mars: “Fly Away Home.” According to Grant, "Fly Away Home" is "one of the weirder stories, and one that, given the renown of The Martian Chronicles, can't help but be widely anticipated ... weird in the way that only an author obsessed with small towns and space travel could make it."

"I'm an optimist. I discard all such dark tomorrows. I have faith in man as God and God as man; I believe we'll be immortal, seed the stars and live forever in the flesh of our children. That's my job as a writer -- to show man his basic goodness, to dramatize his struggle up and away from this planet." -- RB